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📈 Time to shine📈 Time to shine
WNBA sees historic viewership, attendance, and sales to begin 2024 season
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Business is booming through the first month of the WNBA’s 2024 season. On yesterday’s episode of The GIST of It, co-host Ellen Hyslop put its early wins into perspective of how long the league has been here and where it’s headed next. Here are a few key metrics released by the league that prove the W has entered a whole new era.
June 12, 2024
🏆 Inching closer and closer🏆 Inching closer and closer
Injuries threaten both squads’ chances in NBA Finals while Stanley Cup Final fights jet lag
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Two squads boast dominant 2-0 leads in the NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Final, but outside forces are threatening the action on both the hardwood and the ice. May the most resilient teams win…
June 12, 2024
⚽ Selling the pitch⚽ Selling the pitch
Canada’s NSL secures national broadcasting deals with TSN, CBC
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The Northern Super League (NSL), Canada's new professional women’s soccer league, is coming in hot. Yesterday, it announced a multiyear media partnership with Bell Media’s TSN/RDS and CBC/Radio-Canada, the nation’s top English and French networks, making the league accessible across Canada in its two official languages.
June 12, 2024
⚾ What happens in Florida comes to Omaha, NE⚾ What happens in Florida comes to Omaha, NE
Recapping the weekend’s NCAA baseball Super Regionals
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s the Super Regionals! The baseball boys served up some serious weekend drama with trips to the Men’s College World Series (MCWS) on the line — and there’s more where that came from tonight.
June 10, 2024
👟 And the bass keeps runnin’, runnin’, and runnin’, runnin’👟 And the bass keeps runnin’, runnin’, and runnin’, runnin’
Olympic hopefuls dominated this weekend’s NCAA outdoor track & field championships
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Five NCAA records fell at this weekend’s national finals — four of them in women’s events.
June 10, 2024
🥎 Full count🥎 Full count
The Women’s College World Series is the latest growth magnet for women’s sports
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The latest NCAA event to demonstrate women’s sports’ massive growth? The Women’s College World Series (WCWS)
June 10, 2024
🎾 That je ne sais quoi🎾 That je ne sais quoi
Carlos Alcaraz wins first French Open while Iga Świątek three-peats as champion
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The 2024 French Open came to a historique close as Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Świątek re-wrote the record books in the City of Light. Très bien, indeed.
June 10, 2024
🏅 Golden girls🏅 Golden girls
Team USA 5-on-5 roster includes top WNBA stars, but not Caitlin Clark
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The Team USA Olympic 5-on-5 women’s basketball roster was announced this weekend, and Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark didn’t make the cut. It’s a reality check that despite Clark’s rapid ascent, there’s still levels of the game she’s not quite ready for. And while Clark may have an edge in popularity, this U.S. squad will definitely draw a crowd — and marketing dollars.
June 10, 2024
🏆 Whole lotta hardware🏆 Whole lotta hardware
Boston Celtics surge to 2-0 lead over Dallas Mavericks in NBA Finals
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One word to describe the first few games in the NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Final? “Dominant,” with the home squads firing on all cylinders.
June 10, 2024
🥎 The background🥎 The background
Everything you need to know about the 2024 AUX Softball Season
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All part of a larger movement for women’s sports and softball, here’s everything you need to know about the innovative league. And spoiler alert: there’s nothing soft about it.
June 09, 2024
🏒 Ice, ice baby🏒 Ice, ice baby
Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers face off in Stanley Cup Final
After nearly two months of electric postseason play, the Stanley Cup Final has arrived with the Eastern Conference champ Florida Panthers battling the Western Conference–winning Edmonton Oilers in pursuit of Lord Stanley.
June 07, 2024
🎓🥎 All they do is win🎓🥎 All they do is win
Oklahoma four-peats as NCAA softball champions, further cements dynasty
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No. 2 Oklahoma rewrote the college softball record books once again last night, winning their unprecedented fourth straight national title by beating No. 1 Texas 8–4 in Game 2 of the best-of-three Women’s College World Series (WCWS) championship.
June 07, 2024
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